Stuck In The Mud

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Thatcher won because of the spectacular failure of 'old' Labour. Not only has 'New' Labour failed just as spectacularly, as Nick Cohen almost says, the entire 'left' project, that we all used to believe in so much, has collapsed too, with the solutions we thought would solve most of society's problems not only creating more problems, but actually making the original problems themselves even worse.
So, the Tories should be not only shooting at an open goal, they should be the only team left on the pitch. Therefore, why Cameron even refuses to go into the, now deserted, opponent's half is a bit of a mystery. That is until you realise that the very solutions offered by 'New' Labour are demonstrably failures of what would have been post-Thatcher Tory solutions. Such things as consultants, managerialism, PFI, unsuitable privatisation and so on, and on.
That is why Cameron's players are all stuck in the mud around the centre circle passing the ball back and forwards between them, all dimly aware that if they do shoot all they can ever score is only an own goal.